badly

Example Sentences

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Badly, would be the answer for most of us.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Badly wanting this to be different from my codependent and stifling marriage, I told myself his aloofness was a good thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025

Sheila Wray Gregoire, a Christian critic of purity culture, responded on her Bare Marriage podcast with an episode titled, "Why Evangelical Honeymoons Often Go So Badly."

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024

Badly injured from a fight, a man wakes up in the Calais Jungle, a ramshackle camp for migrants in northern France.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Badly has now become an adjective in its own right, meaning “sorrowful” or “regretful.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker